With the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission set to begin 15 September in Portoroz, Slovenia, pro-conservation countries prepared once again to take on Japan and other pro-whaling nations.

HSI and The HSUS welcomed the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Japan’s whaling program is a breach of the global whaling moratorium and lacks scientific legitimacy in regard to the quotas set and the numbers taken.

Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and its prohibition on international commercial trade in whale products.

HSI welcomed the start of the hearings in Australia’s unprecedented case against Japan’s so-called ‘scientific whaling’ of minke and fin whales in the Antarctic at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Read the statement from HSI Vice President Kitty Block, praising the government of South Korea for its decision to drop its controversial proposal to launch a lethal scientific whaling program in 2013.

HSI's delegation to the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, held in Panama City, Panama, called upon conservation nations of the IWC to challenge Korea’s plans to go whaling under Article VIII scientific exemption clause.

Read HSI's statement on votes conducted at the International Whaling Commission meeting rejecting the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal, and approving a humpback whale hunt for St. Vincent and the Grenadine.

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